Chinese Solar CEOs Say Government Gives Them No Special Breaks
Top executives at four of China’s biggest solar-panel makers said the government hasn’t given them special treatment, rebutting a U.S. complaint that they got benefits including subsidies and preferential...
Canadian Solar liefert Solarmodule nach Deutschland
Kanadas führender Solarkonzern Canadian Solar hat Solarmodule mit einer Leistung von 8,5 Megawatt an einen Solarpark in Lindenhof, nahe Neubrandenburg geliefert. Das entsprechende Solarprojekt soll im nächsten Monat fertig...
Rückkontakt-Modultechnologie von Solland Solar und SCHOTT Solar erhält VDE-Zert.
Der Verband für Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik (VDE) hat das von Solland Solar (Heerlen/Aachen) und SCHOTT Solar (Mainz) gemeinsam entwickelte Rückkontakt-Solarmodul nach IEC-Norm 61215 ed.2 & 61730...
ENN Solar Energy Partnered with NERC to Transform a New Jersey Landfill
A New Jersey landfill has recently been converted into a solar power generation facility capable of producing over 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity over its lifetime. The solar project, which employs about 9,000 ENN´s PV panels and is...
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Researchers in Israel are taking an “old school” approach to photovoltaics (PV). Instead of the ubiquitous semiconductors found in most PV panels, professors Koby Scheuer, Yael Hanin and Amir Boag at Tel Aviv University’s...
Companies go big in Nevada with concentrating power plants
The Mojave Desert´s solar potential may be even more powerful than billed. Two under-construction power plants - SolarReserve´s Crescent Dunes near Tonopah and BrightSource´s Ivanpah Solar just south of the state line west of...
Japanese electronics giant Panasonic said on Friday it would build a new solar cell factory in Malaysia, as it looks abroad to cut production costs caused by the surging yen. The company said it would spend 45 billion yen ($582 million) on the new...
JA Solar (JASO) Shares Downgraded to a “Sell” Rating by TheStreet Analysts
Separately, analysts at ThinkEquity downgraded shares of JA Solar from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note to investors on Wednesday. Analysts at Needham & Company reiterated a “hold” rating...
Would tariffs placed on Chinese solar panels amount to "protectionism?" Are the companies most critical of the trade complaint "just crying foul?" And what´s more important to American companies, the race to grid parity or...
How to make a glass bowl out of sand and sunlight, in the middle of the Sahara
This gorgeous, mysterious video is a glimpse of one possible Earth future. Imagine that we abandon fossil fuels for solar, but not before our once-green world grows sprawling new deserts.
First Solar Outlook Brightens With New Arizona Plant
First Solar recently announced plans to build a solar module factory in Mesa, Ariz. The factory will boost First Solar’s annual production capacity by more than 250 MW when completed around the third quarter of 2012.
Ascent Solar Enters into a Joint Development Agreement with GlobalWatt, Inc.
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today that it has partnered with GlobalWatt, Inc., a specialty solar applications company,